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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district.

The Canadian activist group Adbusters initiated the protest, which subsequently led to Occupy protests and movements around the world. The main issues are social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector. The OWS slogan, We are the 99%, addresses the growing income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population. To achieve their goals, protesters act on consensus-based decisions made in general assemblies which emphasize direct action over petitioning authorities for redress.

Protesters were forced out of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. After several unsuccessful attempts to re-occupy the original location, protesters turned their focus to...

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Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan on Monday received a three-month prison sentence, followed by five years' probation and community service, for intentionally elbowing a New York police officer during a March 17, 2012, protest at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.

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Hundreds of protesters marched through lower Manhattan on Monday during Occupy Wall Street's one-year anniversary demonstrations. The assembled crowds, among other similar chants, shouted "the whole world is watching." They weren't kidding. In the ru...

Twitter relinquished Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris's tweets to Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino on Friday, after months of fighting a subpoena for three months of data. The tweets will remain under seal until a decision ...

Mashable is thrilled to announce that Tim Pool, Occupy Wall Street broadcaster and nominee to TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world, will join the 2012 Social Good Summit to discuss how new technology can advance citizen journalism. Limited...

The Occupy movement has made its way to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Protesters marched from a park nearby the Tampa Convention Center premises to a vacant lot that's become a designated "RNC Free Speech Zone." SEE ALSO: Rep...

A U.S. judge ordered Twitter on Monday to release data about a user arrested at an Occupy Wall Street protest, partially on the grounds that Twitter users who tweet publicly have "no reasonable expectation of privacy." "If you post a tweet, just like...

Twitter released its first transparency report Monday -- but the takeaway may not have been exactly what the company hoped for. The report focused on several matters relating to users' freedom to post what they want: how frequently governments around...

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Twitter, which has a history of complying with court requests for users' data, appears to be drawing a line in the sand. The company filed a motion in a New York State court on Monday to quash a court order that would force it to hand over data perta...

The Occupy Wall Street movement, long-ridiculed as being comprised of unemployed stoners, smelly hipsters and the homeless, just got a whole lot more polished with a new site simply called Occupy. The site is glossy, graphic, and easy to navigate, es...

"And here, at City Hall, you can see we've got a little Occupy movement going on." Kip Katsarelis gestures at the giant flatscreen, where a rowdy bunch of Sims have gathered to wave signs in front of his mayoral office. Their main beef? Unemployment ...

A worldwide network of hackers has managed to gain access to the most secure networks on the Internet. The leaderless and faceless group, known as Anonymous, has infiltrated networks of the CIA, Interpol, email accounts of presidents, and has taken d...

If you've taken part in Occupy Wall Street, then the New York County District Attorney's Office might want to take a peek at your Twitter data. The DA's office has sent subpoenas to Twitter asking for the data of a handful of people arrested last yea...

If you've tweeted a lot about the Occupy movement, the Syrian Protests or the Egyptian Revolution, Twitris may have considered what you said and recorded it. Dr. Amit P. Sheth, director of the Kno.e.sis Center in Dayton, Ohio, developed the idea for ...

Vigilante hacker collective Anonymous made public personal information of Oakland, Calif. city officials Tuesday, in response to what the group calls violent behavior toward Occupy Oakland protestors. Information released by Anonymous contains names,...

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Smacked with yet another subpoena, Twitter must submit an Occupy protestor's account information to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office -- unless the account holder can stop the order before Feb. 8. The District Attorney's Office issued a subpoe...

Can members of the Tea Party find common ground with Occupy Wall Street protesters? That's what NBCpolitics.com will try to find out through an online-only web chat. The hour-long web chat, to be held on Wednesday afternoon, will include three Occupi...

Social media curation tool Storify doled out its Story of the Year honor Thursday to Josh Stearns, who is using the service to keep track of journalists arrested during the nationwide Occupy Wall Street protests. Stearns works for Free Press as the j...

Occupy Wall Street broadcaster Tim Pool's protest coverage, shot entirely on smartphones, has received more attention than most mainstream media. The reporter -- who doesn't identify with the term citizen journalist -- is now devising ways mobile tec...

Susannah Vila is a co-founder of the engine room, an organization that investigates and supports digital advocacy. Connect with her on Twitter @szvila. The movement that began on Sept. 17 in New York City was initiated in part by a Canadian magazine ...

Occupy Wall Street protesters occupied a TV show set depicting the movement in New York City Thursday night. They organized the march via Twitter with the hashtag 'mockupy' and took over the set of Law & Order SVU. Real NYPD officers removed the prot...

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Social media has not only been at the core of major protest stories, but drove some of 2011's biggest news, from Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring. Digital tools such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have defined this year's social movements by g...

The "Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop" meme takes center stage in Know Your Meme's latest episode. In the video, Internet scientist Forest Gibson unravels the short but eventful history of the meme, which caught fire in November and attracted sub...

Here's a new tactic for Occupy Wall Street protesters to consider: dressing up as zombies for a mass performance of "Thriller". That's what thousands of members of Chile's growing student protest movement did in June, gathering for a Michael Jackson-...

Isaac Wilder, an active member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, reportedly snapped photos of destroyed laptops confiscated from protesters during NYPD raids Nov. 17. Last week we wrote about Wilder's Free Network Foundation, which is bringing Inte...

The web has given the meme treatment to the police officer who doused students with pepper spray at the University of California, Davis, during a local Occupy Wall Street protest. Over the weekend, a video showing the Nov. 18 incident enraged many vi...

The Faculty Association at the University of California, Davis, is calling for the resignation of chancellor Linda Katehi after a YouTube video surfaced showing police pepper spraying passive Occupy Wall Street protesters. "The Chancellor’s authoriza...

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